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Oh dear! Both the number of people who share my view (and arguably express it better than me), and my inability to quickly convince everyone else, in the long discussion thread on this post at Ophelia Benson’s blog makes me … Continue reading →

For once I find myself agreeing with Briggs! His post on the debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig (neither of whom I really cared to hear more from) prompted me to actually watch it – and I did … Continue reading →

It’s a shame when those who claim to be “Fact Checking” resort to willful misinterpretations, distortions, and exaggerations of their own. For example this Fact Checker from The Washington Post starts with “We’re the cleanest economy in the entire world.” — Vance (False, … Continue reading →

Biden doesn’t need to drop out if Harris and her supporting team can be integrated into Biden’s core group in such a way that she can genuinely be seen as a co-leader ready to step in whenever Biden falters. (With … Continue reading →

Razib Khan at Gene Expression: The misrepresentation of genetic science in the Vox piece on race and IQ  objects to this Vox piece about Charles Murray. I have a number of concerns about the Vox piece but curiously the main claim that … Continue reading →

Kenan Malik starts the year with a preview of FIVE BOOKS TO ARGUE WITH. The best kind of book, to my mind, is the kind of book you can have an argument with. Not a book so wrong that I … Continue reading →

Richard V. Reeves, in The Glass-Floor Problem – NYTimes.com concludes with: This is delicate territory. Nobody wants parents to stop trying hard for their children. But nor do we want a society in which the social market is rigged in … Continue reading →

Sam Harris has issued a “public challenge” to those who think his book is silly. To wit: “Anyone who believes that my case for a scientific understanding of morality is mistaken is invited to prove it in 1,000 words or less. … Continue reading →

In a comment at 3quarksdaily (on the posting by Robin Varghese  about Jerry Coyne’s response to Glen Greenwald’s criticism of Sam Harris’ attitude to Islam), Abbas Raza objects to Coyne’s and Harris’ claim that those who complain of Islamophobia never define … Continue reading →

Ophelia Benson’s post on Patricia Churchland’s 2011 book ‘braintrust’ points out that, in contrast to the efforts of Sam Harris and Michael Shermer, Churchland makes a much more modest claim for what she is doing. Indeed Churchland’s claim “is not … Continue reading →

In a recent article in The New Atlantis,  Austin L Hughes addresses a number of instances of scientific hubris, tags them with the popular label “scientism”, and asks: Is scientism defensible? Is it really true that natural science provides a satisfying … Continue reading →

British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks claims to know The Limits of Secularism, but he seems to be confusing secularism with science rather than just considering it as freedom from religion. The two essential roles that he reserves for religion are … Continue reading →

Despite the self serving concept of  “noblesse oblige”,  this report (which came to me via 3QuarksDaily) shouldn’t really be too surprising. The title phrase “more likely to” doesn’t really suggest causation in either direction, but I suspect that it does actually … Continue reading →

Michael Ruse is someone whose name is often mentioned and he presents this ‘Darwinian Approach to Moral Philosophy’ at the ‘ Talking Philosophy’ blog as a summary of his apparently sometimes controversial views. So I think I’ll read it fairly … Continue reading →